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How do you memorise an entire symphony?
In a feat of musical memory, the Aurora Orchestra will perform Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony without printed scores at the BBC Proms 2015….
Song writing competition for UK schools, colleges & universities
A free competition for students to write songs for Fidel the musical about Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution is now launched…
Cooking and music ‘are top skills UK adults want to learn’
Almost two-fifths (39%) of adults would like to be better cooks or bakers, according to a survey commissioned to launch a festival…
Austerity and the arts: the hidden cuts that are bad for our cultural health
The main parties show commitment in their manifestos to increasing access to and diversity in the arts, yet they are ignoring the…
Nick Clegg talks exclusively to Classic FM: ‘Some schools do music better than others’
Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has told Nick Ferrari about his desire to take up the drums again, and…
Labour have produced a 2015 Charter for Culture and the Creative Industries
Labour’s 2015 Charter for Culture and the Creative Industries We the undersigned do hold that: Exploitative zero-hours contracts should be banned, unpaid…
Advocacy and pedagogy in secondary school singing
Music as a school subject, it so often seems, retains its apparently perilous position in the school largely as a result of…
Alfie Boe becomes patron of Blackburn with Darwen Music Education Hub
What does a celebrity patron bring to a charity? Famous names can generate a huge amount of interest for a charity, provided…
Menuhin Competition 2016 opens for entries
The biennial Menuhin Competition comes to London in 2016, in partnership with Classic FM. And today, on what would have been the…
